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$26.50
xxehf220995

Music in the Middle Ages: With an Introduction on the Music of Ancient Times


REESE, GUSTAVE

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copIes, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: W. W. Norton 1940

KEYWORDS: Middle Ages ancient music history

$35.00
xxehi220996

Music of the Middle Ages: Style and Structure


WILSON, DAVID FENWICK

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copIes, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Schirmer Books / Macmillan 1990

KEYWORDS: Middle Ages music history theory

$18.50
xxehi220997

On Music and Musicians


SCHUMANN, ROBERT

Super octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (G+) d/w in two pieces; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copIes, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Dennis Dobson 1947

KEYWORDS: music history criticism commentary classical composers

$16.50
xxeib221004

Connecting Spheres: Women in the Western World, 1500 to the Present


BOXER, MARILYN J. (ed.) & QUATAERT, JEAN H. (ed) & SCOTT, JOAN W. (fore.) et al.

Super octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copIes, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1987

KEYWORDS: women history cross-cultural studies Europe United States

$16.50
xxeib221005

Life in Nelson's Navy


POPE, DUDLEY & FIELDHOUSE, SIR JOHN (fore.)

Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copIes, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Naval Institute Press / Bluejacket Books 1996

KEYWORDS: Admiral Lord Nelson naval history Royal Navy 18th century

$25.00
xxeic221013

Good Luck to All the Lads: The Wartime Story of Brian Cox 1939-43


COX, PETER & GORDON, JOHN (fore.)

Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copIes, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: J. J. Angerstein & Associates 2008

KEYWORDS: Bran Cox biography military history world war two New Zealand

$24.50
xxelc221045

Guadalcanal: An American Story


HIXON, CARL K.

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copIes, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Naval Institute Press 1999

KEYWORDS: American military history world war two battle of Guadalcanal Pacific island U.S. First Marine Division

$35.00
xxelc221047

Through Darkness to Light


MACDONALD, PATRICK

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copIes, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Images Publishing (Malvern) 1994

KEYWORDS: RAF 205 night-bomber group Mediterranean Strategic Air Force world war two militray history

$35.00
xxelc221048

Paths of Development in Capitalist Agriculture: Readings from German Social Democracy, 1891-99


HUSSAIN, ATHAR (ed.) & TRIBE, KEITH (ed.) & FOWKES, BEN (trans.) et al.

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copIes, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Macmillan 1984

KEYWORDS: German social democracy history capitalism agriculture development socialism

$25.00
xxeld221050

We Were Soldiers Once... And Young: Ia Drang: The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam


MOORE, LT. GEN. HAROLD G. & GALLOWAY, JOSEPH

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copIes, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Airlife Publishing 1994

KEYWORDS: leutenant general Harold G. Hal Moore American military memoir Vietnam war history battle of Ia Drang

$35.00
xxelf221052

The Struggle for Guadalcanal August 1942-February 1943 [History of United States Naval Operations in World War II Volume V]


MORISON, SAMUEL ELIOT

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copIes, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Castle Books 2001

KEYWORDS: United States navy military history world war two Guadalcanal Pacific

$15.00
xxelf221054

The Battle for Berlin


STRAWSON, JOHN

Ex-library octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copIes, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: B. T. Batsford 1974

KEYWORDS: battle for Berlin world war two military history

$15.00
xxeme221061

The Birth and Development of the Geological Sciences


ADAMS, FRANK DAWSON

Octavo softcover (VG) minor pencil annotations; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copIes, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Dover 1954

KEYWORDS: history of science geology b&w illustrations

$10.00
xxeme221065

The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion [Abridged Edition]


FRAZER, SIR JAMES

ABRIDGED paperback (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copIes, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Macmillan 1963

KEYWORDS: magic religion history

$55.00
3c1/10

The Pacific Journal of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville 1767-1768


DE BOUGAINVILLE, LOUIS-ANTOINE & DUNMORE, JOHN (Trans & Ed)

Super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt ship motif to front board, map/illus to eps, lxxvii + 322pp, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light fading/tanning to spine, light creasing & chipping to edges, minor soiling)

PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society / Map Library 2002

KEYWORDS: hakluyt society series exploration history maritime Pacific journals Louis-Antoine de Bougainville 17th seventeenth century

$100.00
3c1/15

Essay on the Theory of the Earth (Fifth Edition)


CUVIER, Baron G [GEORGES] & JAMESON, Professor (Geological Illus)

FIFTH EDITION, FRONTIS LOOSE, super octavo, dark blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to leather title plate on spine, deckled page edges, frontispiece, 16pp + xxiv + 550pp, VG- (leather title plate on spine heavily cracked, moderate creasing/wrinkling to spine, moderate chafing to boards, light to moderate scuffing to extrems, moderate soiling to page edges, light tanning & moderate soiling to eps, prev. owners' names/details in ink to ffep, moderate soiling to prelims, ffep detached but present, moderate foxing & age appropriate staining to pages throughout, occasional cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and T Cadell, Strand, London MDCCCXXVII (1827)

KEYWORDS: natural history literature essays Baron Georges G Cuvier

$100.00
3c1/17

The Age of Illumination: Byzantine Art and Civilisation ; Gothic Art and Civilisation ; Early Medieval Art and Civilisation (3 Vol Boxed Set)


HENDERSON, GEORGE & RUNCIMAN, STEVEN

3 VOL SET, IN SLIPCASE, imperial octavo, gold buckram boards, black lettering to spines, black illus to front boards, teg, iridescent eps, frontispieces, mixed pagination, illus, Near FINE, in slipcase, VG+ (minor chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2004

KEYWORDS: folio society byzantine gothic early medieval art civilisation civilization history illumination

$45.00
3c1/18

An Account of a Voyage to the North West Coast of America in 1785 & 1786


WALKER, ALEXANDER & FISHER, ROBIN (Ed) & BUMSTED, J M (Ed)

Octavo, black heavy boards, black lettering to beige spine, 319pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, sl soiling & discolouration to boards/edges, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG- (moderate to heavy loss to top edge of spine & rear, otherwise only minor creasing & soiling, in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired)

PUBLISHER: Douglas & McIntyre / University of Washington Press 1982

KEYWORDS: North West coast US America history exploration voyages 18th eighteenth century maritime Alexander Walker

$200.00
3c1/20

The Wild West of New Zealand: A Summer Cruise in the Rosa


PAULIN, ROBERT

Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & black decoration to front board, frontispiece, viii + 121pp, G+ (bottom half of spine partially detached & flapping loose, moderate to heavy chipping/scuffing to extrems, moderate tanning & soiling to spine, light soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges, prev. ownership embossed to ffep, heavy cracking to front & rear gutters- tape reinforcement to front gutter, prev. owners' names in ink to verso of half title page, top corner of title page missing [text affected] with repairs, numerous tears with tape repairs to pages throughout, prev. owner's minor ink markings sporadically throughout, heavy cracking to some gutters, large crack to rear gutter- binding exposed & rear board shaky)

PUBLISHER: Thoburn & Co 1889

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history historical travel literature Robert Paulin south west

$40.00
3c1/21

A Yankee Botanist in the Carolinas: The Reverend Moses Ashley Curtis (1808-1872)


BERKELEY, EDMUND & BERKELEY, DOROTHY SMITH & CURTIS, Rev MOSES ASHLEY

Octavo, light blue/grey light card wrappers, black lettering to spine & front cover, printed inside covers, frontispiece, 242pp, VG+ (light fading to spine, prev. bookseller's label to front cover)

PUBLISHER: J Cramer 1986

KEYWORDS: US America American history nature plants botany botanists Reverend Moses Ashley Curtis

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